Greatest College Combo

[DWKB]

With the Harden thread in the ASU forum, and reading a thread on another board about this, I thought it might be an interesting discussion here:

If you take a college's greatest basketball player and their greatest football player, which college would come out on top from an all-time ranking?

 

[MaoTosiFanClub]

KU? Sayers/Wilt?

Where's the love for Bruschi-Hibachi?

 

[Mulli]

Jordan/Lawrence Taylor - UNC.

 

[DWKB]

Yeah I came down to Wilt/Sayers (or Riggins) vs Jordan/LT.

Wouldn't it be Bruschi/Elliott?

I'm really surprised with the lack of SEC candidates.

ND has Montana/Laimbeer

'Cuse has Jim Brown/Dave Bing

UCLA has Aikman/Jabbar (of course if it were baseball instead of football they would have Jackie Robinson)

 

[Skkorpion]

Ohio State has a bunch of candidates. John Havlicek or Kevin Mchale in hoops and Paul Warfield in football.

How about Louisville? Johnny Unitas and take your pick. As soon as I started researching this, I quit. Too many possibilities and yes SEC schools too. Shaquille O'Neal and take your pick. And on and on.

 

[Lefty]

Ohio State has a bunch of candidates. John Havlicek or Kevin Mchale in hoops and Paul Warfield in football.

How about Louisville? Johnny Unitas and take your pick. As soon as I started researching this, I quit. Too many possibilities and yes SEC schools too. Shaquille O'Neal and take your pick. And on and on.

Kevin McHale played his college ball at Minnesota, not Ohio State.

I like the Jordan/Taylor pick but because it has already been mentioned, I would add Magic Johnson/Bubba Smith(Michigan State).

 

[Southpaw]

Pete Maravich / Jim Taylor LSU


Pistol Pete, my favorite all time BB player.



Rick Barry/The Edge Miami

 

[DWKB]

Ohio State has a bunch of candidates. John Havlicek or Kevin Mchale in hoops and Paul Warfield in football.

How about Louisville? Johnny Unitas and take your pick. As soon as I started researching this, I quit. Too many possibilities and yes SEC schools too. Shaquille O'Neal and take your pick. And on and on.

Is there an LSU fb player that compares to LT or Sayers? I can't think of one and I don't think "take your pick" counts for much. TN? AR? AL basketball? AB basketball? KY football? SEC = not so much.

 

[Southpaw]

Is there an LSU fb player that compares to LT or Sayers? I can't think of one and I don't think "take your pick" counts for much. TN? AR? AL basketball? AB basketball? KY football? SEC = not so much.

Jim Taylor. Billy "Boom Boom" Cannon. Yelberton Abraham Tittle.

 

[Gaddabout]

If you're going to go with Miami, for football, you have to go with Ted Hendricks, not "The (Dull) Edge."

Marshall: Hal Greer/Randy Moss

Louisville: Johnny Unitas/Wes Unseld

San Francisco: Gino Marchetti/Bill Russell

Auburn: Bo Jackson/Charles Barkley

Navy: Roger Staubach/David Robinson

Minnesota: Bronko Nagurski/Kevin McHale

Florida State: Dave Cowens/any number of players (Biletnikoff, Derrick Brooks, even Anquan freakin' Boldin) but I'll go with Deion Sanders

And my personal fav ...

Prarie View A&M: All-time great safety Ken Houston/ABA legend Zelmo "Big Z" Beaty. I can't make this stuff up.

Purdue had Rod Woodson and like 20 astronauts, including Neil Armstrong, so screw basketball, no one's messin' with Purdue. Gene Keady's hair can't compete with that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Biletnikoff

 

[Dback Jon]

Illinois:
Basketball - either Kendall Gill or Eddie Johnson
Football - either Red Grange, Ray Nitschke or Dick Butkus

 

[Dback Jon]

San Francisco:

Gino Marchetti/Bill Russell

 

[Dback Jon]

Good resources:

http://www.basketballreference.com/players/playerbycollege.htm
http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerbycollege.htm

 

[IAWarnerFan]

Iowa-
Connie Hawkins/Dallas Clark, Bob Sanders, Tim Dwight, or Tavian Banks

 

[IAWarnerFan]

Good resources:

http://www.basketballreference.com/players/playerbycollege.htm
http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerbycollege.htm

That worked great except for one thing.
Northern Iowa:
Nobody?/Kurt Warner

 

[Dback Jon]

That worked great except for one thing.
Northern Iowa:
Nobody?/Kurt Warner

He's there...
http://www.databasefootball.com/players/bycollege.htm?sch=University+of+Northern+Iowa

Look under University of....

I had checked UNI already - make sure a friend was listed...

 

[IAWarnerFan]

He's there...
http://www.databasefootball.com/players/bycollege.htm?sch=University+of+Northern+Iowa

Look under University of....

I had checked UNI already - make sure a friend was listed...

I was refering to the basketball part. I was surprised that UNI has had no NBA talent.